Star Boston Celtics shooting guard Jaylen Brown recently met up with local civil rights legend Jean McGuire after the 91-year-old METCO (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity) program co-founder had been stabbed while out with her dog in Franklin Park early in October (h/t NBC 10 Boston’s Jake Levin).
“Jean McGuire,” Brown tweeted his appreciation of the local desegregation leader recently, “thank you for the work you continue to do, and have done in our community. I admire you. Your strength/resilience is amazing it was an honor to spend some time with you. I am looking forward to working with METCO and talking more about the community.”
METCO, now the second-longest existing and largest school desegregation program in the United States, and was helmed by McGuire for over four decades beginning in 1973 in a community infamous for its struggles with desegregation in the 1960s and 70s.
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Notable METCO graduates include athletes like Bruce Brown and AJ Reeves, pop stars like Bell Biv DeVoe’s Michael Bivins, and politicians like Tito Jackson, Kim Janey, and Marylyn Mosby, to name but a few.
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